Table 5. Number of farms and poultrypopulations in Vietnam. System Semi-industrial Characteristic Family Industrial Number of Producers Average flock size ... Birds per farm Chicken Duck System Total Number of farmsPopulation ('000) Chicken Duck Chicken Duck Total ... al., 2004. Buy day old chicks from foreign and Vietnamese companies. Details

poultry and pig farms, Vietnam, 1999. Poultry farmsa Pig farmsb North South Variable ... Among the sample poultryfarms, the average value of output per farm is much ... 3). Large commercial farms and specialised poultry production are also proportionately

outbreaks began in late 2003, Vietnam’spoultrypopulation’s growth rate was 8 ... influenza outbreak in Vietnam, the poultrypopulation dropped 14%, and poultry meat ... Of the total poultrypopulation, about 50 percent are raised from backyard

Figure 2: region wise evolution of the overall poultrypopulation (chicken and ducks) in Vietnam since 2003 (in 10.000 heads) Year 2003 Year 2004 Year 2005 10'000 heads Red River South Central South East Central High Mek. River North East North ... of the overall waterfowls population, while the South accounts for 41% of the total waterfowls population. Regarding the chicken population, 56% is found in the North and 44 ... (22 heads on average), while the average number of ducks per household

1 shows the probability of an individual farm/ﬂock being infected for Vietnam ...poultry ﬂocks both in Thailand and Vietnam. In Thailand, for example, the Central ... A survey of 25 small-scale farms that experienced HPAI H5N1 in Vietnam found that 68

villages; 80 % of the population is Muong (largest ethnic minority in the district ... among 8 villages; 80 % of the population is Muong, 20 % Kinh; the area of the commune is 1 ... plain, more specialised in intensive livestock farming, like the neighbouring

Statistics Office of Vietnam According to MARD, about 54% of all of these farms ... that meat and poultry demand in Vietnam will grow at between 8% and 10% per annum ... 10% per annum over this period because Vietnam has a very large number of people below

Table 4.4 Number of Farms by Activity and Region, Vietnam, 2005 Annual Perennial Poultry/ Crops Crops Share of Total Region Livestock Aquaculture Total Red River Delta Northeast Northwest Central-North Central-South Central Highland South ... Gender Analysis of Aquaculture Value Chain in Northeast Vietnam and Nigeria interviewed for this study do not meet the size or value of goods criteria for farms ... to policy making was followed in Vietnam in all economics sectors, including aquaculture

Table 3.4 – Classification of Swine Farm Sizes in VietnamNumber of Animals Farm Scale Feeder Pigs <19 19–99 >100 Sows Small Medium (commercial) Large (commercial) <5 5–19 >20 Source: Vu et al., 2007 ... commercial farms. In Vietnam, farms are considered commercial if they have 20 sows. While small farms account for 85 to 90 percent of the total pig population, they produce ...farms under cooperative business structure in North, whereas farms are still

However, there are number of constraints to the coffee boom in Vietnam (Tan ... Figure 3. Farm gate and harvested coffee area, Vietnam, 1990–2002 (Source: Dang and Shively, 2004) ... study for a number of reasons. These include the rapid expansion of coffee; the signiﬁcant population increase12; the resulting forest loss and land degradation